This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 edition. Excerpt: ... THE CRY. Verse 1.--My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ? Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? How solemn, how mysterious, O Christian! are these affecting words ! They absorb the mind; they overpower the heart! The view they present is almost too awful to be ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 edition. Excerpt: ... THE CRY. Verse 1.--My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ? Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? How solemn, how mysterious, O Christian! are these affecting words ! They absorb the mind; they overpower the heart! The view they present is almost too awful to be realized. It is difficult to persuade ourselves of the two facts which they imply. Can it be true, that the Father of mercies forsakes any human being on this side the grave ? Is it possible, that when deserted by the great God, man can still address him in the language of affiance ? Go to Golgotha, Christian. Behold the amazing reality. Learn the unsearchable mystery. God's last and severest infliction, and faith's strongest and highest act, are being there displayed. Let the evangelists conduct thee in thought to Mount Calvary. Imagine thyself to have been present when the great atonement was offered. That was the judgment-day of the Saviour of the world. At the tribunals of men he was condemned--under their u sentence he was being now executed: and while his body hung in torture on the cross, he was arraigned in spirit before the bar of God, under the imputation of human guilt. The court of heaven descended, as it were, to Mount Calvary. This strong voice from the cross rends the veil that hides the unseen world from our view. We behold the great God at the dread moment when the last sentence has been pronounced. These awful words, " Let the law take its course," have just been uttered. The eternal Judge appears with his face turned away, as if about to leave the throne of justice, unable to exercise the Divine prerogative of mercy. An agonizing cry thrills every heart, arrests every attention, " El-i, El-i, lama sabachthani, --My God, my...
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